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This Is How You Know You’ve Made It on Twitter

by eliz on March 14, 2010

When some of the biggest bloggers around start following you on Twitter, it’s a big deal.

These writers don’t just follow anyone, you know. They must have been impressed with my wit, my pith, my haikus about Thin Mints and “Gossip Girl’s” Chuck Bass. Julie is the first blogger I read regularly, and anyone can tell [...]

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46 19th-Century Occupations That Now Double As Names for the Progeny of Upwardly Mobile Parents (Or Just Sound Like They Are)

by eliz on March 8, 2010

Taylor
Hunter
Cooper
Miller
Tanner
Walker
Ranger
Saylor
Porter
Ryder
Carver
Falconer
Mariner
Tucker
Harper
Thayer
Usher
Granger
Turner
Potter
Decker
Sawyer
Fletcher
Schuyler
Trevor
Skipper
Hollister
Conner
Bonner
Gardner
Miner
Asher
Mercer
Brewer
Warner
Oliver
Mayer
Keller
Lawler
Roger
Saddler
Mather
Proctor
River
Smythe
Smith

Read the day’s other lists over at Anna’s:

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The Two R-Words I Didn’t Intend to Write About

by eliz on February 26, 2010

I certainly didn’t want that last post front and center for so long, sure as shit not a full month.
Even worse, the comments. I’d delete them from the blog but what’s the use since I can’t delete them from my mind? (What the hell with the drama, delete them from my mind? Scrub them from [...]

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